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- Religious retreats: Head to the Catskills (AP via Yahoo! News)
At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the Sunday service at the Sufi religious retreat.
- A teaching transformation - Delta Democrat Times (subscription)
A teaching transformationDelta Democrat Times (subscription), MS - 1 hour agoIn the model lesson Daft led on Tuesday, each of the twelve students in the room offered suggestions for a class poem about the joys of summer. ...
- Review: In Hansen's 'Exiles,' facts get in the way of fiction - St. Petersburg Times
Story Tools In his 1991 novel, Mariette in Ecstasy , Ron Hansen wrote so convincingly of religious experiences that he made me wonder if, as an atheist, I was missing out on something. He returns to cloistered life in Exiles , though he's not as ...
- SWAT standoff in NE Austin comes to an end (News 8 Austin)
AUSTIN A SWAT standoff in Northeast Austin near the intersection of Spring Hill and Berry Wood is over. FULL STORY >> Updated: 7/8/2008 10:24 AM CENTRAL TEXAS Number of people applying for gun licenses rises The Texas Department of Public Safety is dealing with a backlog of applications for first-time concealed hand gun licenses.
- The Dangers of Going Right in Sin City: Gun Control - NewsBlaze
The Dangers of Going Right in Sin City: Gun ControlNewsBlaze, CA - 3 hours agoZach Mroczkowski is an active poetry, short story and news writer currently narrowing down his major in school to journalism or English with a creative ...
- 'Exiles' is sure to get its claws in your brain (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Here is what happened when I began raving to some (very nice) friends about “Exiles,†a new novel by Ron Hansen about how the 19th-century Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins came to write perhaps his most inaccessible poem, “The Wreck of the Deutschland,†after hearing of the death of five German nuns in a shipwreck on the shoals of the Thames.
- Book learning - Times Record News
Book learningTimes Record News, TX - 5 hours agoThe purpose of such a course would be to teach students the biblical content, characters, poetry and narratives that can be found in contemporary society ...
- Zidane to play in Sydney (Perth Now)
THREE-TIME world footballer of the year Zinedine Zidane is coming to Australia with a star-studded international team to play a Sydney exhibition match.
- Your life, in just six words - Fort Worth Star Telegram
Your life, in just six wordsFort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 3 hours agoPaul Thornton's reads almost like poetry. "Alabama boy said Hallelujah, wrote memoirs." Writers like brevity; readers more so. Makes you think harder, ...
- Etruscan Press Names New Managing Editor - Wilkes University
Etruscan Press Names New Managing EditorWilkes University, PA - 8 hours agoThe press released two publications that were National Book Award finalists: Shoah Train, a poetry collection by William Heyen, and Chromatic, ...
- Stafford students win with quarterback, Indian maiden - Free Lance-Star
Pocahontas and Johnny Unitas aren't mentioned together too often, but both are big-time heroes at Stafford Elementary School. Fifth-grader Emma Guercio loves the legend of the American Indian princess saving white settlers. When her classmate, Joey ...
- Bulletin Board, June 8 - Norwich Bulletin
Bulletin Board, June 8Norwich Bulletin, CT - 38 minutes agoCONNECTICUT POETRY SOCIETY, 10 am to noon, July 5, East Lyme High School, EAST LYME. All area Poets are invited to attend. Bring a work in progress or your ...
- Creating thoughts A writer because he wants to be is Steve ... - South Delta Leader
Creating thoughts A writer because he wants to be is Steve ...South Delta Leader, Canada - 13 hours agoSince then, he’s written everything from children’s books to collections of essays, even poetry. He says he is making up for lost time. ...
- Let's play hostages (Guardian Unlimited)
Arts & entertainment: Emine Saner on a haunting new movie about Afghanistan by a 19-year-old director
- When poetry was king (The Prague Post)
May Day may have been relatively quiet in Prague this year, but during the Cold War it was a political flash point. In 1947, the U.S. Congress decreed May 1 Loyalty Day, hoping to stave off its growing international communist overtones.
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